GOTO is a vendor independent international software development conference with more that 90 top speaker and 1300 attendees. The conference cover topics such as .Net, Java, Open Source, Agile, Architecture and Design, Web, Cloud, New Languages and Processes

Public, private, and hybrid; software, platform, and infrastructure. This talk will discuss the current state of the Platform-as-a-Service space, and why the keys to success lie in enabling developer productivity, and providing openness and choice. We'll do this by considering the success of Open Source in general, look at the Cloud Foundry project, and find out why Cloud Foundry-based PaaSes are the best places to host your applications written in Java and other JVM-based languages.

Andy Piper is widely known as a Social Bridgebuilder and speaker, and works as Developer Advocate for Cloud Foundry, the Open Source Platform-as-a-Service. His passions span a wide variety of areas: cloud, devops, mobile devices, the Internet of Things, Arduino and similar technologies, social computing, and photography. He is project lead and developer on the Eclipse Paho lightweight messaging project. He works for Pivotal. Andy was previously with IBM Software Group for more than 10 years, as a consultant, strategist, and WebSphere Messaging Community Lead. He holds a Master of Arts (Oxf) in Modern History from Brasenose College, Oxford University.